Swing Quotes
557 Swing quotes by 423 unique authors
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If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing,…
— Donna Tartt
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You could say that Elphaba brought us together,' said Boq softly. 'I'm closer to her and so I'm closer to you.' Galinda seemed to give…
— Gregory Maguire
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It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
— Benjamin Franklin
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I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves,…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn...
— Virginia Woolf
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He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When…
— Raymond Chandler
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Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing…
— Jimmy Buffett
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Say what you will about the south, but in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing anyway it wishes.
— David Sedaris
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Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing…
— Martin Amis
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But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was…
— Stevie Smith
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The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.
— Nick Harkaway
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Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness.…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
— Katherine Paterson
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If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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More or Less Love Poems #11: No babe We'd never Swing together but the syncopation would be something wild
— Diane di Prima
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And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to…
— Jodi Picoult
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She wished she had a little yellow house of her own, with a flower box full of real flowers and herbs – pansies and rosemary…
— Francesca Lia Block
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We are walking down the street holding hands. There is a playground at the end of the block, and I run to the swings and…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don’t be…
— Augusten Burroughs
Who Wrote These Swing Quotes
423 authors contributed a total of 557 Swing Quotes, led by these top contributors: